Why I'm Resisting the Post-PC Revolution
CIO.com blogger James A. Martin loves his iPad but won't be ditching his computer. Compared to desktop software, mobile OS apps require too many compromises.
How to Customize Windows 8
The Consumer Preview of Windows 8 has its share of the good and not-so-good. Fortunately, you can tweak various things to make it work the way you like.
In the tech world, acquisitions, mergers, partnerships and product investments seem to happen every day. Here are some other recent, and less recent, tech unions that either struck gold or turned to dung. For some, the jury is still out.
CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle says enterprises won't rush to roll out Windows 8. However, they may see the new OS in the form of Windows RT, the ARM version that combines the snazzy UI that users like with management and security controls that IT likes.
From the gothic Lisbeth Salander in "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" to the brainy Mark Zuckerberg in "Social Network," blockbuster movies have recently elevated the tech geek from quirky sidekick to cool hero (or anti-hero).
The 2012 IDG Enterprise Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C) survey was completed with the goal of gaining understanding of current and future UC&C investments. The survey highlights the uptick in UC&C adoption and investments in the coming three years in enterprise organizations.
How well do you know Gmail? Here are five tips, from setting up an automatic vacation response to signing out of your account remotely, that the average Gmail user might not know about.
Members of an increasingly mobile workforce can suffer from gadget overload. From smartphones, tablets and notebooks, deciding which devices to pack can be daunting. Here are 10 smart gadgets to help you work better on the go.
CIOs can expect their jobs to change dramatically by the end of the decade. Expect an increased role in everything from business planning and cybersecurity to robot management and, of course, the cloud.
How well do you know LinkedIn? Maybe not as well as you think. Here's a look at five features and tools -- from listening to headlines to hiding your identity -- that can save you time, expand your network and give you perspective on your connections.
Who says you need a college degree to be successful? Here's a look at 10 tech titans who dropped out and made it big...really big.
As IT outsourcing matures, you'd think negotiating IT service deals would get easier. Not so, according to the attorneys who deal with service levels, contract structure and pricing models.
News
- Apple to Offer Its Nano-SIM Patents Royalty-Free
- What You Need to Know About 802.11ac
- Tips for Buying a Three-Stream Access Point
- Microsoft, Nokia Will Spend $24 Million on University Program to Boost App Development
- Apple's New IPad Clears China's Regulatory Hurdle
- Who Holds the Keys?
- Microsoft Moves to Slow Google Apps
- Eclipse Readies Browser-Based IDE
- Are Tablets Inevitable As PC Replacements?
- Push Your Cloud Supplier to Participate in CSA STAR
Applications
- Microsoft, Nokia Will Spend $24 Million on University Program to Boost App Development
- Microsoft Moves to Slow Google Apps
- Eclipse Readies Browser-Based IDE
- 10 Questions for Scala CFO Anthony Maddalone
- Facebook Scammers Host Trojan Horse Extensions on the Chrome Web Store
- Google Ends Chrome Search Rank Penalty Period
- SAS Promises Pervasive BI with New Tool
- Oracle Set to Update Analytics Strategy, Go After SAP Customers
- Wall Street Beat: Tech Bellwethers Offer View Into IT Trends
- Microsoft's Ads, Humor Boost Consumer Opinion of IE
Careers
- Tech Job Seekers Less Likely to Be Asked for Social-Media Passwords
- Indian, U.S. Firms Urge Obama Action on Visas
- Facebook and Senator Fire Back At Password Snooping Employers
- When Will the Offshore Flow of IT and Finance Jobs End?
- Offshoring Shrinks Number of IT Jobs, Study Says
- 'NoOps' Debate Grows Heated
- New Verizon CEO Got $16 Million Pay Raise in 2011
- JOBS Act Would Revive Dot-Com Abuses, Official Claims
- How to Get a Hot Job in Big Data
- IT Skills Shortages Inside Companies Hamper Profitability, Productivity
Cloud Computing
- Microsoft Moves to Slow Google Apps
- Eclipse Readies Browser-Based IDE
- Push Your Cloud Supplier to Participate in CSA STAR
- EBay CISO Receiving Security Industry Lifetime Achievement Award
- AWS Partners with Open-Source Private Cloud Provider Eucalyptus
- AWS Deal Improves Eucalyptus' Chances At Enterprises
- Figuring Out the Data Center Fabric Maze
- AMD's New CEO Likes Basketball and the Chip Maker's Future
- Cloud Security Registry Slow to Catch on
- Amazon Comes Out on Top in Cloud Data Transfer Speed Test
Data Center
- Who Holds the Keys?
- Disaster Recovery on Double Duty
- Genealogists Excited for Release of 1940 Census, Family History Sites Prepare
- Figuring Out the Data Center Fabric Maze
- Nvidia Brings Console Gaming to Ultrabooks with New GPU
- Quantum Unveils Enterprise-Class Cloud Backup Services
- With Tech Breakthrough, Seagate Promises 60TB Drives This Decade
- AMD Reaches for the Cloud with New Server Chips
- China'S Huawei Eyes Bigger Share of Server Market with New Tecal V2 Products
- Linux 3.3 Released, Integrates Android Code
Mobile
- Apple to Offer Its Nano-SIM Patents Royalty-Free
- Hold the Phone: Retailers Eye Payments Via Smartphone
- The Newspaper Industry Must Change, Or Become Yesterday's News
- New iPad: Three Strikes, But Not Out
- As Navigation Looks Indoors, New Uses Appear
- Symantec Details Mobile Device Management Plans
- Angry Birds Space Won't Fly on Windows Phone
- 5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them
- Attacks in Android's Sideview Mirror Are Smaller Than They Appear
- LTE Phone Shipments to Increase Tenfold in 2012, Analysts Say
Web 2.0
- Facebook Scammers Host Trojan Horse Extensions on the Chrome Web Store
- Facebook Password Requests From Employers Raise Ire of Lawmakers
- Facebook Privacy Debate a Passionate One
- On Facebook, Think Before You "Like"
- Facebook Tips to Make Password Privacy Issue a Non-Issue
- Tech Job Seekers Less Likely to Be Asked for Social-Media Passwords
- Facebook and Senator Fire Back At Password Snooping Employers
- 5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them
- Facebook Warns Employers Not to Ask Job Applicants for Log-in Credentials
- Dutch Judge: Companies Can Lay Off Employees Over Facebook Insults
Virtualization
- Disaster Recovery on Double Duty
- The Pros and Cons of Using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Cisco Offers Virtualized Video Surveillance
- VMware Eases Cloud Provisioning
- TuCloud Criticizes Microsoft, OnLive for Virtual Desktop Licensing Debacle
- Is Mobile Virtualization Ready for Your Business?
- Meru Unveils Virtualized WLAN Infrastructure
- 5 Ways to Prepare for Big Data With Scale-Out NAS
- Standardizing the Desktop
- ENNI Promises Painless Ethernet Connection to Carriers
Security
- Who Holds the Keys?
- Push Your Cloud Supplier to Participate in CSA STAR
- Disaster Recovery on Double Duty
- Facebook Scammers Host Trojan Horse Extensions on the Chrome Web Store
- Microsoft Leads Seizure of Zeus-Related Cybercrime Servers
- Facebook Password Requests From Employers Raise Ire of Lawmakers
- Facebook Privacy Debate a Passionate One
- Huawei Told Not to Apply for Australian Broadband Project
- On Facebook, Think Before You "Like"
- Facebook Tips to Make Password Privacy Issue a Non-Issue
Outsourcing
- Indian, U.S. Firms Urge Obama Action on Visas
- Helpdesk Outsourcing Quagmire At Heart of Whistleblower Lawsuit
- Texas Ousts IBM, Takes New IT Outsourcing Tack
- Offshoring Shrinks Number of IT Jobs, Study Says
- 9 IT Outsourcing RFP Response Red Flags
- Is Your Outsourcer Agile Enough
- Lessons Learned: Outsourcing Managed Network Services
- IT Service Providers and Customers Battle Over Data Breaches
- Anti-Offshoring Bill Scores 77 U.S. House Co-Sponsors
- IT Innovation "More Important Than Cost Cutting" - Ovum
Operating Systems
- Google Ends Chrome Search Rank Penalty Period
- Why Linux on the Desktop is Dead
- Microsoft's Ads, Humor Boost Consumer Opinion of IE
- Angry Birds Space Won't Fly on Windows Phone
- Attacks in Android's Sideview Mirror Are Smaller Than They Appear
- Windows 8 Preview Beats Windows 7 in Most Performance Tests
- Nonprofit Open Source Organizations Booming
- Windows 8 Tablet Displays Can Be As Crisp As Apple IPad's Retina
- The Pros and Cons of Using Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- Windows 8 Bible: Your Complete Guide to the Upcoming Version of Windows
Data Center Definitions & Solutions
What is a data center? How are data centers managed? What data center technologies should I be aware of?
CIO 100 2011
The 2011 CIO 100 Awards honor 100 companies that are accelerating business results by innovating with technology. Find out who they are.
HP is driving the evolution of what we call the Instant-On Enterprise. It is an enterprise that embeds technology into everything it does to better serve citizens, partners, employees, and clients. We believe that today's Instant-On Enterprises need to think differently about how they source and deliver services that are enabled by technology. They need to take advantage of a hybrid delivery model-one that truly optimizes the mix between traditional IT, private cloud, and public cloud.
Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Sponsored by HP & Intel
As you know, everything is mobile, connected, interactive, and immediate. This is exactly why organizations need a highly agile IT infrastructure in order to keep pace with extreme fluctuations in business demand. This book will help you understand why infrastructure convergence has been widely accepted as the optimal approach for simplifying and accelerating your IT to deliver services at the speed of business while also shifting significantly more IT resources from operations to innovation.
Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Sponsored by HP & Intel
Enterprises are turning to the Cloud to improve business agility, reduce expenses and accelerate business innovation. Cloud computing redefines the way IT assets are deployed and consumed and dramatically affects the way data center networks are architected and managed. Conventional hierarchical data center networks built to support traditional IT architectures can't meet the security, agility and price/performance requirements of virtualized cloud computing environments. This white paper reviews the impact of cloud computing on data center networks and describes HP's approach to building simpler, more secure and automated networks that fully meet the stringent performance, security, reliability and agility demands of the new data center in the Cloud.
Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Sponsored by HP & Intel
This white paper describes the major requirements for network management solutions to help the organizations become more profitable, efficient and reliable.
Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Sponsored by HP & Intel
Business users increasingly demand 24x7 availability of their data while IT departments face the challenge of ensuring maximum availability while operating with limited budgets.
Sponsored by Oracle and Intel
Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 2:00 PM EDT
Traditional NAS systems don't scale beyond fixed limits. Proliferation of NAS systems leads to management challenges. Many organizations also use traditional block-based SAN solutions for transactional systems like databases and email. Having separate block and file storage also adds to management challenges.
Sponsored by Dell
Need to do more with less? Watch this video to learn how HP ProLiant Gen8 servers can help your business deploy servers three times faster; initiate problem anaysis five times faster; increase administrator productivity three times; and experience storage performance six times faster.
Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.
Sponsored by HP & Intel
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2012, 1:00 PM EDT / 10:00 AM PDT
In a recent study conducted by Ponemon Institute, fifty-five percent of respondents indicated they were not confident that their organization would be able to detect the loss or theft of sensitive personal information in their company's databases and applications.
Join featured guest Dr. Larry Ponemon from the Ponemon Institute, to discuss these new findings and how to best address the growing number of data breaches and privacy challenges that are facing your organization. This webinar will focus on:
- Understanding the current state of privacy and data protection in the production environment
- Identifying areas of greatest vulnerability
- Keeping data secure without sacrificing productivity
- Enterprise and configurable solutions for multiple applications
Sponsored by Informatica
Executive Women in IT (EWIT)
The CIO Executive Council launched an initiative dedicated to advancing women in IT and in business. The Executive Women in IT (EWIT) Leadership Connection provides access to peer advice, events, resources and tools to help women on their journey to success. Learn more
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The Future-State CIO®
The Future-State CIO® will be accountable for IT function success and business process transformation by adopting a more company-external focus and concentrating on using information to drive innovation and strategic advantage in pursuit of business goals. Learn more
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